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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1959.
Poisoned Baby Powder Thomson Trails
Chemist's Preparation Allegedly Caused Deaths Of 72 Babies
Bordeaux, Oct. 23.
A French pharmacist, defending himself against charges of criminal negligence in the deaths of 72 babies sprinkled with Baumol baby powder, today testified that his preparation was calming powder and not a medicine.”
The chemist, Jacques Casenave, faery possible iwo-year guol term for involuntary homicide if convicted.
The powder, mixed by error with anhydride of arsenic instead of zinc oxide, caused 72 deaths and suffering and Illness to about 300 other infants.
Today was the second day of a trini expected to last two or three weeks,
The deaths date back to 1051 and 1902..
ARSENIC
Two Police inspectors testl- Red that they visited one of the suppliers of Casenave's chemical laboratory and found that toxic and non-toxic products WETC dit- nat clearly labeled acid ferentiated.
A toxicologist lestified that he had checked 321 samples i of the powder on the hair of ¦
and 100 403 living chlidren
dead ones, and found arsenic in 120 of them.
He said the nrseale coulents varied between 1 and 30 grams of samples and per kilogram that the proportions varied con- siderably, indicating the formula was not uniformly followed "but
Seeks Ruling
On British
Subjects
In Canada
Montreal, Oct. 23.
Counsel for a 24-year old
West Indian is seeking a court ruling here which would place British sub- jects living in Quebec province above the juria diction of the Government of Canada by virtue of a 200-year old treaty.
for
A. H. Zaitlin, jawyer Darryl Ainsworth Franklin, a coloured Trinidanian, won an initial round yesterday when he obtained release on ball of his ellent, facing deportation pend- that was not very serious com- pared to the toxic presence in a "habeus corpus hearing
selt."
on November 25,
He said the preparation was: In his plea, Zaltia Invoked carelessly put together and not the 1763 treaty of St Germain
He added properly analysed.
that as proof
British subjects that even the zinc oxide used was not in conformity with The pharmaceutical codex-APP.
New Russian
UK Leads France
In Tennis Match
London, Oct. 22.
Brilain took à 3-2 lead over France after the first series of encounters in the 48th_match between the International_ Tennis Clubs of the two countries which opened in the Indoor wood courts at London's Queen's Club today.
French veteran, Jean Boroten, who is d1, was the hero of the afternoon session when he scored a 6-3, 7-5 win over Ernest Wittmann, a 50-year-nid former Polish Cup player, who was playing for the British tear,
Other results were
Gerry Oakley (Britain) beat Henri Pelliza (France) 7-5, 4-6. 6-1; Ablu Lartigue (France) best
Spychals (Britain-formerly of Poland) 6-2, 4-0, 6-4.
Chezlaw
Tony Pickard (Beltain) best Juoques Mey (France) 3-6, 6-3 6-1; Bully Knight (Britain's number one) beat Marcel Bernard (French veteran) 6-3, 6-1-AFP,
UK Drivers Protest Dismissal Of Pakistani
Birmingham, Oct. 23. Thirty drivers and leadert
Quins Are
Buried
Taylor, Texas, Oct. 23. The Hannan Quins, who lived
loss than
day, buried today in five doll- size coffins.
The
children, known
wore
at
In Brazilian Golf Tourney
Rio De Janviro, Oct, 23. Australian Pater Thomson, who recently won the Italian and Spanish tities in the space of a week, trolled sight strokes behind the loader after the second round of the Brasilian Open Golf Championship here today.
Former champion Mario Gon- moved into a zales, of Brazil, clear lead with the day's best round of 64-five under par- for a tal of 130,
Casper
Ills closest rivals today were Colombia'a Alfonso Bohorques with 05 and three players with 07--the holder Bily (USA), Brazil's Lana Rapisarda and Argentina's Leopoldo Rulz. Thomson had a 68 for a total of 138. Leading positions:
130-M. Gonzales (Bra- zil).
134-W. Casper (U.S.A).
199-A Boborques (Colombia), L. Ropisarda (Brazil)--Reuter.
SHIPS
FOR
SCRAP
HEAP
Middlesbrough, Oct. 23,
Ex-Nazi Guard Sir Nicholas Cayzer, Frest-
On Trial For Murder
Bamberg, Germany,
Oct. 23.
went on strike for seven hours at a local building and plumbing equipment | virih on Tuesday as "A" to firm today over the dis "E" bad their names on little Former Naxi Police guard missal of a Pakistani,
The man, 35-year-old Moham- med Chuinm, had been employ-j ed by Rowe Brothers and Com-
labourer for 10 months. He can pany in a temporary job as a neither speak nor write English. Yesterday he was given three week's notice,
Thomas
the MJ
Budding,
to
were above the jurisdiction at Transport and General Workers the Department of Immigration. Union Shop Steward at the firm, He argued that Franklin opposed said that Ghulam, known deportation on the grounds of his work mates as "B," was the treaty between Britain and liked by all the men. France which established special rights for all British subject; living in "Lower Canada." trealy was written the year
COURTEOUS
The "We regarded him as one of
Envoy To U.S.? Canada was ceded to Britain by the most helpful and courteous
Washington, Oct. 23. Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Mikhail Men- shikov, left here today for New York en route for a Moscow
wind talk, that vacation might soon be replaced.
A quoted
ho
Washington newspaper dipicmatic unnamed
scurces here day as saying
That the Soviel
Union might
coon appoint a new Ambassador
to the U.S.--AFP.
False Alarm
Los Angeles, Oct. 23. Police and newsmen. rushed
to the mayor's office when riot button was sounded,
Everything was gutet at the ofce and an investigation re- verled
clrcuit that a short caused the alarin button to round the alarm.-UPI
TROUBLE
Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 23. Convicted of chunken driving. Mark A. Kollock told Judge HP. Pollard he was going to sell his car because "It always gets me into trouble.---UPI.
Frame UPI.
Singapore Is Urged To
Industrialise
'The
Singapore, Oct. 23. Prime Minister, Mir Lee Kuan Yew, said here today that Singapore must industrialise If it wanted to survive,
"There is no way by which our entrepat trade can continue to give full cieployment 10 our rapidly-growing population," he told reporters after an omelat visit to the Singapore Polytechniq and a junior trade school.
Mr Lee said that every year,
were 30,000 people
either leaving school or had reached the age when they looked for Jobs.
"It is imperative that we should give large numbers of them a technical education and get thein absorbed in our ex- panding industries," he said,
Shippam's
from the Sate Agents:
of colleagues," Mr Budding Fit. "He served in the army for 10 years and endured the sufferings of a Japanese, pri- soner of war camp. We think we owe him something."
the
After discussions with Union, the firm agreed to keep the man on until December 31 while the Union cadeavours to find him a new job.Router.
World Champ
To Fight
Buenos Aires, Oct. 23. The Luna Park Stadium an- nounced that it has sign- ed Welterweight World Champion Don Jordan a single fight Buenos Aires,
for
in
the the
Jordan writ meet Argentine champlan of division, Punima-Born Frederic Thompson, on December 7 in D non-title ten round bout.
The Lan Park also said
each ribbons on covered coffin today.
lambskin-
As they began to fail, they
Air were hastly baptised by
Janet Lee, "Deborah Lynn, Force doctors with the names: Karen Danise, Melissa Jane and Suzanna Kay.
Georg
Schlosser charged here today with killing eight Polish Jews in 1942.
Was
Schlosser, 45, now a labourer, was accused also of the at- of another tempted murder Jow.
dent of the British Cham- ber of Shipping, said to- night that, the world had too many ships "fit and ready for the scrap heap,”
"The time is near if not reached when scrapping must, be accelerated," he told a shipping dinner at Saltburn, near here.
Ships laid up throughout the world included 232 tofalling nearly 1,000,000 gross tons bullt before 1934, and 642 of nearly 5,000,000 tone built in World War Two.
*
cody we could find a way to get rid of these ship how much better off we should be." Sir Nicholas Cayzer added.
Charges cinim Schlosser com- WHITE VESTMENTS mind the murders during the notorious extamination of Jews
HUNGRY FOR ORDERS Instead of the wai mass for in the Tschenlochau, Poland. the dead, it was "The Mass of Ghetto where he was a guard,
*Soon if not already our ship- the Angels" which was cele-
7 ACCUSERS
| building yards will be hungry brated, with the priests wearing Announcing
the
charges for orders. white, not black vestments, at against Schlosser, the Public
Catholic the Roman
Church Prosecutor, sald
former "I should have thought there here.
Ghetto inhabitants now residing was room for some rationaliza- in Israel accused Schlesser of tien on an International bazis the murder.
in the shipbuilding world be- Schlosser, who is being held | cause present output is at a in prison, until his trial, denied | rete high enough to replace the world flect every 12 the charges-UPI,
Their father, Air Force Licu- tenant Charles Hannan, and his two sons. Robert, 5, and Pat, 4, Inel!
in the church Mrs Cecilia Hannan is still in hos-
ital.
од
were
The Quina died at intervals on Tuesday night and carly
Wednesday
birth thelr allve was a one-in-42 million- chance. They
three months premature, and docters bad told their parents from the start there was little hope of saving them.
There are only two known | acts_of_quintuplets alive in the
world today.---Reuter.
язуел
Impression
San Pedro, Calif., Oct. 23. Pete Shellet, 89, retired ongshoreman, walked down to to see any of the the dock fish catch struck his foney.
entire
| years."-Reuter,
Union's Demand
Union
'London, Oct. 23. leaders of Britain's 370,000 railwaymen today re-
A 10-pound trozen Halibut peated their demand for a sub- bounced out of a passing truck stantial pay
rise at try-ogain'
and made quite an impression | talks with the British Transport on Shellet's head-UPI.,
Commission-Reuter.
Haynes' Omission From
England Team Seen As
Disciplinary
Measure
London, Oct. 23.
that the Philippine Weller: The omission of Johnny Haynes, the Fulham and England inside-left, from
weight Champion. Bocky
Kaling, will make
in Buenos Aires on
his debut October
31, facing Argentina's Jorge Fernandez --UPL
the team to meet Sweden at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday' next
may be a disciplinary measure by the Football Association, it was
learned today.
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Haynes was recently fined for failing to declare a miniaturė camera at London Airport on his return from an - overseas football tour and the FA. are known to frown on players doing this sort of thing.
If soured one excellent gond and mindo inany openings for his colleagum. ‘Again this week, he scored two posis in Fullana's 7-2 victory over Watford.
After the Wales International, Haynes, who played in every erities wore nearly unanimous match on fast summer's. South that the England attack lacked American tour and who has not a achemer to make the openings missed any of the Inst 27 inter for the other forwards. The nationals except through injury, consensus of opinion favoured would not be the first England the recall of Haynes but the international to be dropped for selectors have ignored the this reason.".
Haynes also carned the disland will face the world cup touch line experts and so Eng- pleasure of the governing body analists without their "general" of soccer recently by being.
Following is the England team mixed up In bookmaking business. The FA drew his selected to play Sweden; attention to their law 37 which decrees that a player seting as boolanbiker for connected with the business of being legally of misconduct.
KAPOLOGISED Hrynce pleading "ignorance of the law,pologised to the PA and withdraw hià half shore in the bine drakkana
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